3Com launches vulnerability-buying program

3Com launches vulnerability-buying program
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-07-25

TippingPoint, a division of networking giant 3Com, plans to pay researchers for information about unannounced vulnerabilities in major systems and software and will add bonuses for prolific flaw finders, the company announced on Monday.

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What about open source? 2005-07-25
Anonymous (1 replies)

Interesting program, to be sure. It worries me, though, that the only vendors eligible for advance notice of 3Com's purchased sploits are ones who can apply patches without giving away the details of the patch (until after 3Com has released its own filters to address the issue.) This seems to rule o...

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Re: What about open source? 2005-07-26
Anonymous

The spirit of opensource is different and should be respected. If a company shares the source code with you you should give back any patch to them for free, just to give something back.

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3Com launches vulnerability-buying program 2005-07-25
PhantomCircuit

Frankly that's stupid 99% of hackers who are good enough to find vulns worth cash aren't going to give them up, for anything....

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